The show has come and gone once again; here's what you missed
The brands pulling out, the lack of goodies and the altogether lacklustre show: welcome to the 2020 Canadian International Auto Show. Let's just ignore all the 'car spotters' drooling over the Bugatti getting approved though. We applied for a media pass. We were rejected. So we thought we'd go anyway. Spoiler alert: it was totally skippable.
Great news! The Kia Stinger now has a new special edition model. It's on display, what else could it mean? This edition adds a wrap, and....that's all. Okay? Seriously? You're going to come up with this awful design, slap on an artist signature that's somehow even less tasteful than the 'Sisely Honda' badges you get from the dealer, and call it a day? This is something I would have designed in my Need For Speed Underground days as a joke.
Grab your Gamecube and pop that NFSU disc in boys! We are back. First it's low effort wrap design, and now under lighting is back and it is here in full.. err, not force.. rather, there's one car here. Why? Who's 15 years late to the party? Did anyone ask for this?
Infiniti has brought all their lovely, and dated, cars to the show, all put on a large and stunning high-key stage display. It's a sea of white except...it seems someone missed the memo on which colour car to grab. We might accept it's a tribute to the Japanese flag. Except the red part is in the middle over there.
Now it's time for 'top cars, worst lighting' as we enter into auto erotica, err, I mean, Auto Exotica. Though it's better lit for the former. Want to get some good pics? Well screw you kid! Not here. You'd definitely get a better ass shot with auto erotica at least.
To take it next level we come to the Autostrada booth within Auto Exotica, where they gather some of the world's rarest and most incredible vehicles...but manage to display them in the most mundane way - in case the atrocious lighting wasn't enough. Truly inspiring.
Thankfully Grand Touring and Pfaff McLaren realized that cars look better when lit so they left auto exotica in pursuit of a decent display. Somehow Pfaff forget to bring Pagani along. Oh well.
I like Porsche, and plaid, and.. carbon fiber.. that doesn't continue the alliteration. Anyways, it's the Porsche 935, clothed in exposed carbon and sporting a plaid spoiler to pay tribute to Pfaff's motorsport division and the GT3R. Other Porsche's included, like the new 718 GT4 and the Taycan.
There were some cars we care about. Mainly the Audi RS6. Yes please.
Some displays we thought were decent (some actual thought put in). The Mazda 3 display was particularly good with the ability to see multiple angles at one time thanks to the mirror box.
Can't have an auto show without some outlandish concept cars that will never see the light of production. The designer of the BMW Vision M Next looked as excited as we are about the car.
Some other cars, which should be expected. We love the VW GTI, but why did they bring the worst version of it? Those are some wheels fit for a base model.
This was a cool exhibit of some old racing cars, but as we know little about the racing days of old we should probably just leave it there. Look at the size of Andretti's Helmet!
And now, for our favourite reveal of the day, but we can't decide between two, so we'll leave it up to you to decide. First we have a Buick release, umm, the Encore GX, which had all of 4 people listening to this poor presenter list off features for this pension-mobile. Or, we have this grand, rear end display.
And so ends another CIAS. Volvo never showed, which is odd since people already forget about them as it is. On a larger scale, Mercedes-Benz pulled out. It might be time for us to do that too.
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